Handle assembly.



J. T. ALLMAND. HANDLE ASSEMBLY.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.3I,19I7.

Patented Sept. 10, 1918.

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JOHN '1. ALLMA'ND, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

HANDLE ASSEMBLY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented saw. to, mus.

Application filed August 31, 1917. Serial No. 189,097.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that 1., Jonn T. ALLMAND, who am a citizen oi" the United States, residing at Detroit, county of Wayne, State of Michigan, have invented a. certain new and useful lmprovement in llandle Assemblies, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact. des ription of the same such as will enable others which it. pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part ot'this specification.

This invention relatesto a handle or crank lever assembly, the invention involving a new, neat and useful way of removably attaching a handle spindle or crank shaft.

A very common instance of the use of a metal handle on the end of a spindle is a door knob, especially an automobile door knob or crank handle on the window litting device of a closed automobile. This is the special field in which this assembly is more particularly intended but it will be broadly, is where an angular member is attached to the end of a shaft.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a view of a closed automobile, fragmentary, but showing the handle attached to. a door.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of a handle attached to the end of a spindle.

Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same.

Fig. 4 is a detail in section showing how the parts go together.

Fig. 5 15 an end view of the spanner union I nut.

afrom that shown in Fig. 2.

a designates a spindle which may be used for a great many purposes, among others to move a latch of a door or operate a-w1n (low-lifting apparatus. in a closed automobile body. I; is a handle, crank or other member or crank to the end of a (3 is an elevationtaloni at a 90 angle having two skilled in the art to with an annular ring or interior haltannular ribs h adapted to lit. into the annular groove and form a cone plete annulus.

Now, obviously, when the two parts of the split union nut. are brought together with the ribs in the annular groove, or against. the shoulder formed by the groove, and the split. mlt-turned until its threads take hold of the threads in the hub, the split union nutv becomes as etlicient. as a one piece nut and serves to draw the handle tightly on to the'spindle completing the assembly. 01' course a single nut wouldnot do because there is no way of assembling it upon the spindle to get the rib into the groove.

It will he noticed that the spindle u. to the inside of the annular groove is provided? escutcheon shoulder. l The escutcheon can pass ov'er the shoulder againstwhich the split ring abuts but cannot pass over the escutcheon shoulder. Conscquently when the escutcheon is screwed to the door this escutcheon shoulder prevents the spimllefron being drawn out. When the split nut is iltplacc it substantially abuts against the outside of the escutcheon and consequently prevents the spindle from being-moved longitudinally in the other direction.

The complete assembly is shown in Fig. 6 and it will be evident that it makes a very neat and practical handle and it is hard to detect how the handle is put on because nothing but the spanner ring part of the nut is exposed. J

The handle as a door handle for automobiles is a very distinct advance. The more eonn-non construction to-day consists of a thereto. The spindle is held in the look by securing the cscutcheon plate to the door by screws. This results ,in the handle or spindle usually binding in the door and the handle having to be bent relatively to the spindle by hammering before the job is sent out. By m mw way of assembly this trouble is completely overcome and yet the handle has a. very similar appearance to the old constructlon.

What I claim is:

1. An assembly of the character specified, having in combination. a spindle having a shouldered portion, a hub alined with the spindle and provided with a screw-threaded interior, a nut split longitudinally into a plurality of parts having portions adapted to engage against the shouldered portion 0 the spindle, the spindle and the hub having such a relation that they will rotate together,

nation of a spindle provided with a shoulder .the handle onto the spindle and a key, a handle having a hub interiorly threaded and'having a portion adapted to engage with the key to lock the huband spindle in non-rotative relation, and an annular-device provided with a split portion which can be fitted behind the shoulder, and a threaded threaded hub of the handle and operating in connection with the split portion to draw and into non- "rotative engagement therewith.

3. In a crank handle assembly, the combination of a spindle having on its end a rec tangular nib and near the end a shoulder, a handle having a hub interiorly threaded and provided also with a rectangular socket, and

.le engaging against the portion for engaging with the a split nut which can be assembled around the spindle and behind th shoulder to en: gage with the threads ofj'ne hub and draw the handle'onto the 'spiydle and into nonrotative engagement theiewith by reasonof the nib engaging in the'socket.

4. In a door handle-assembly, the combination of a spindle end with a shoulder and rovided farther in with an escutcheonjshoul er of larger radius, an escutcheon which can be slipped over the smaller shoulder and engage against the provided near its outer escutcheon shoulder to hold the spindle from movement longitudinally in one direction, a

handle with an interiorly threaded hub, and

an annular member'having a split portion and a threaded portion, the former portion engaging with the shoulder and the latter portion 'with the hub threads to draw the handle onto the spindle lation therewith, the said annular member abutting against the escutch'eon to prevent any substantial longitudinal movement of the spindle'in the other direction.

' In testimony whereof I sign this specification.

JOHN TIALLMAND.

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